Chap. 64.—An ACT Modifying the Charter of Washington College, and Au-
thorizing the Name thereof to be Changed to Washington and Lee U:.i-
versity.

Approved February 4, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first sec-
tion of the act passed February twenty-seventh, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-six, amendatory of the act passed Anno Domini,
seventeen hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act for incorpo-
rating the rector and trustees of Liberty Hall academy, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read henceforth as follows :
“$1. That Alfred Leyburn, Horatio Thompson, Benjamin
M. Smith, David E. Moore, John W. Brockenbrough, William
Brown, Francis T. Anderson, William M. Tate, Bolivar Chris-
tian, James D. Davidson, John McD. Alexander, Thomas J.
Kirkpatrick, William McLanghlin, William T. Poague, Wil-
liam A. Glasgow, William Henry Ruffner, Cyrus H. McCor-
mick, John Echols, and James K. Edmondson, and their suc-
cessors in office, for the better government of the Washington
and Lee university, now located in Rockbridge county, Vir-
ginia, are hereby continued and constituted a body politic and
corporate, by the name of The Washington and Lee Univer-
sity; and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a
common seal; may contract and be contracted with; sue and
be sued; may acquire, receive, hold, possess, and enjoy, and
may manage, rent, sell, grant, convey, invest, convert, or other-
wise dispose of, as may to them seem most conducive to the
interests of said university, all lands, tenements, goods, moneys,
and chattels of any kind, which have been or may be given
to, or otherwise acquired by and for the use of the said uni-
versity. The trustees, as a board, shall have power to fill va-
cancies as they occur in their body; to select a presiding offi-
cer therefrom, with the title of rector, and to elect a secretary
and treasurer of the corporation. They shall elect, and, for
good cause, may also remove from office, a president, profes-
sors, tutors, and other officers requisite to conduct the instruc-
tion in the university course; and shall, annually, grant to such
students as, in their opinion, merit the same, diplomas or testi-
monials, under the common seal, signed by the president, rec-
tor, and at least three trustees, reciting the literary degree
granted. ‘They shall prescribe a code of by-laws for the or-
ganization and detailed duties of the board of trustees, and
shall adopt and maintain a code of laws for the guidance -and
government of the faculty and students; and the said code of
laws shall be binding and lawful, if in pursuance of the pur-
poses of this charter, and not inconsistent with the laws of this
commonwealth. The trustees shall, through proper by-laws,
require, of the treasurer elect, bond and security, under pe-
nalty, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his office, and
the safety of the university funds; and it shall be lawful for
the corporation to obtain a jadgment for the amount thereof,
or for any special delinquencies or default incurred by said
treasurer, on motion, upon ten days’ notice, in any court of re-
cord in this commonwealth, against the treasurer and his secu-
rities. The by-laws shall also prescribe proper oaths or aftir-
mations, to be taken by each trustee, officer, president, profes-
sor, and tutor, for the faithful performance of his appropriate
duty; and it shall be lawful for the rector, as well as any other
person legally competent, to administer such oath or affirma-
tion. Seven members of the board shall be requisite to con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business; but it shall
require a majority of all the trustees in office to constitute a
quorum for any disposition of the real estate, for the election
of the president, a professor, or trustee; for an appropriation
of a greater sum than two hundred dollars, or to suspend,
amend, adopt, or abolish, any by-law of the code herein au-
thorized.”
2. The second section of this act shall be amended and re-
enacted to read as follows:
Ҥ 2. That the rector, president, professors and tutors, duly
n elected and bona fide acting as such in the said university, and
all students thereof, shall be exempt from military duty, All
property belonging to Liberty Hall academy and Washington
college is hereby transferred to and vested in said corpora-
tion.” :
re 3. The act passed January nineteenth, seventeen hundred
and ninety-eight, entitled an act to repeal an act for erecting
Liberty Hall academy into a college, passed December twenty-
first, seventeen hundred and ninety-six, and also the act passed
January second, eighteen hundred and thirteen, entitled an act
changing the name of Washington academy, and of the rector
thereof, shall be and the same are hereby, each and both, re-
pealed.
nent 4. This act shall be in force from and after its acceptance by
a majority of said trustees, in general meeting assembled.